Tithaeidae

Tithaeidae is a family of the harvestman infraorder Grassatores, Epedanoidea with about 40 described species.

The Tithaeidae are endemic to East and South-east Asia.

Description

They are typically relatively small harvestmen, often dwelling in leaf litter.

Name

The type genus Tithaeus is derived from Ancient Greek, which Thorell (1890) states in a footnote as "Τιθαιος, nom. prop. person". This possibly reflects Herodotus's The Histories, Book VII: "The captains of horse were Harmamithres and Tithaeus, sons of Datis" http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+7.88&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126

Genera

• Istithaeus <small>Roewer, 1949</small>
• Kondosus <small>Roewer, 1949</small>
• Sterrhosoma <small>Thorell, 1891</small>
• Tithaeomma <small>Roewer, 1949</small>
• Tithaeus <small>Thorell, 1890</small>

• †Ellenbergellus <small>Bartel, Dunlop, Sharma, Selden, Ren & Shih, 2021</small> Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian

References

References

• (eds.) (2007): Harvestmen - The Biology of Opiliones. Harvard University Press

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